{"product_id":"the-gardener-and-the-carpenter-alison-gopnik-9781250132253","title":"The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e The Gardener and the Carpenter, \u003c\/i\u003e Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and shatters the myth of \"good parenting\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaring deeply about our children is part of what makes us human. Yet the thing we call \"parenting\" is a surprisingly new invention. In the past thirty years, the concept of parenting and the multibillion-dollar industry surrounding it have transformed child care into obsessive, controlling, and goal-oriented labor intended to create a particular kind of child and therefore a particular kind of adult. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Gardener and the Carpenter\u003c\/i\u003e, the pioneering developmental psychologist and philosopher Alison Gopnik argues that the familiar twenty-first-century picture of parents and children is profoundly wrong--it's not just based on bad science, it's bad for kids and parents, too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on the study of human evolution and her own cutting-edge scientific research into how children learn, Gopnik shows that although caring for children is profoundly important, it is not a matter of shaping them to turn out a particular way. Children are designed to be messy and unpredictable, playful and imaginative--and to be very different both from their parents and from each other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Gopnik\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250132258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250132253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Alison Gopnik","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44055433347327,"sku":"9781250132253","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f8142247-cc07-4cd3-8d51-84ae79314905.jpg?v=1685035743","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gardener-and-the-carpenter-alison-gopnik-9781250132253","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}